Saturday, December 17, 2011

Dr. Phyllis Chesler, who qualifies legally to testify in court on the risks women face in Muslim families, is interviewed in the video below by Michael Coren. They discuss France’s legal dust-up by an aggressive Muslima, who insists on her right to hide her identity in public.

Dymphna is very familiar with Dr. Chesler’s work, and supplied me with this background information:

Dr. Chesler’s essay on the subject is at the Middle East Quarterly, here.

In her youth Dr. Chesler was married briefly to a Muslim, a fellow college student in the U.S. who took her home to the old country and quickly abandoned the mask: from a modern Western-educated man to a 7th century tribal husband in no time flat. She has written a compelling account of her escape from the nightmare and return to civilization. She has devoted her professional life to attempting to explain to Western feminists the abyss between Islam and feminism. For this Herculean task she was roundly shunned by the tunnel-vision fems.